It’s a good thing I never get around to making New Year’s Resolutions. So far this year has started off a lot more crazy than last year! To me, life is really good when I have plans made, written those plans in my calendar, and other extra spontaneous things fit in around nice and neat and for the most part everything gets done.
I like plans. I like things to have a place. Plans make activities have a place.
There is always the balance needed of being able to adjust to plan changes, but in my mind that should be the exception – not the rule. Now, last year things were very strange on many levels, some I’ve written about here, some I haven’t. I saw that even without a plan, or without practical purpose in a plan, life can be good and fun. When I thought about it very much, I would have been inclined to pat myself on the back, I’d say I did pretty well adjusting :-)…. Regardless, of my “lack of ability” to say things were normal, last year God blessed us with an amazing year! BUT, I realize now I kept thinking “next year it’ll be different, we’ll start out more normal and be able to take deep breathes”.
Not sure I was really adapting. I think now I might have just been going through the motions. The New Year has started and my deep breathes have come yet :-). Wow! Was I ever wrong in thinking things would be “back to normal”! I am reassured in knowing God is in control, but I’m already a bit weary and feel a bit dizzy with all the year has brought on. Are we really only 16 days in?!
{This was New Year’s Eve and me trying to take pictures at -20*; I have my settings wrong but it was so dark and cold I couldn’t see to change. When my brother helped me out I did get some better pictures, but by then I actually couldn’t feel my fingers. 🙂 I feel like this picture is an adequate visual of me…everything is there, but you can’t tell what belongs where – it’s all jumbled, BIG time.}
I really wish I had wonderful pictures ready to post, but I don’t. In fact right now I have a tangled mess of nearly 20K photos between my iMac, MacBook Pro, and two different external hard drives. I think all 20K are on all four devices, but they’re organized differently on each so I’m not completely sure. To top it off the iMac won’t work and I’m so weary of calling Apple to have them walk me through fixing it over-n-over-n-over again. Seriously, I’ve had the machine for 13 months now and I’ve called them 25+ times for help. Half those calls were over 2 hours, and at least a fourth were 4 or more hours! My brain refuses to even calculate how many hours of my life has been spent on the phone with them. Since I’ve had it, I think I’ve comfortably used the machine twice for a couple hours before it got stuck and stayed messed up until I call……. anyway, I’ve digressed to whining so I’m going to stop now. 🙂